Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Don Swarthout

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

David Wallace

People have the misconception that churches have deep pockets. What they don't realize is that we are a nonprofit and we rely on the items to conduct our services. It's not just robbing an institution; it's robbing people.

Peter Peterson

Our five churches have paired together to help support (Louisiana Memorial), sending money,

Barry Lynn

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Alice McCarthy

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

Joseph Bruno

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

Charles Farmer

Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welcome them into our community, our churches and our schools.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Elaine Chao

We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.

Joel Rosenberg

She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

Paul Bloom

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

Terry Bennett

Im sorry, ... If shes watching, Im devoutly sorry to have offended you. I didnt mean to offend you. I meant to tell you the truth. And thats what I tried to do.

Pankaj Mishra

Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

Richard Engel

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

Mike Ford

Their living room is lined floor-to-ceiling with religious and nonfiction books. They, like many younger, educated Bangladeshi, are more overtly devout than their parents. They are more educated about the tenets of their religion.

Robert Duncan

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Julian Elliott

If you are going to include numbers and music the term is getting meaningless.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Cherie Blair

If we're going to truly solve the problems of the world, we've got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

E. Hicks

Last year and before Todd (was promoted), I would stay after practice with Juan and just work on my sets at left tackle, just in case. I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Ron Dennis

Juan Pablo was just cruising and it's massively frustrating.

Lazaro Gonzalez

Juan Miguel needs to come to my house.

Ian Williams

Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.

Adam Shilling

Thomas and Juan were already leaders and we also get Trevor back.

Carlos Castaneda

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

Carlos Castaneda

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Juan Castro

I just try to make contact. I think that's one of the reasons why I'm still here in the big leagues. I do a lot of those things. I pride myself on moving the runners over. That's my game. I always play for my team. I never play for Juan Castro.

Reed Kroloff

I miss Juan and Peter. Now that I'm back there are no more Juan's and Peter's. I shouldn't have left for Singapore. Now that I'm back, I've lost them again. I miss being in the classroom. When is Juan going to turn into reed?

Becca Fitzpatrick

GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see you. I bolted past security but they called code ninetynine and chased me down, they escorted me out in handcuffs. The way I see it, the only criminal here is your mom. No visitors? I'm your best friend, or did she not get the memo every year for the past eleven? Next time I'm over, I'm going to lay into that woman." ~Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

B. B. King

I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.

Billy Corgan

I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me.

Bill Engvall

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Andy Hernandez

Most of (the protests) are immigrant-driven marches. That's why you haven't had any big ones in San Antonio.

Bill Engvall

I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco... I'll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here's your sign!

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Kendyl Jacox

I think there will be relief. I'm not saying you want it to be over, but this has been a long season. I've been through a 1-15 season (in San Diego) before, and it hasn't been this bad. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Keith Stanfield

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Char Morett

It is a tribute to these girls. They will be the first to say that they couldn't be where they are at without their teammates, though.

Dan Donegan

I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag,

Jamie Dixon

It's a tribute to what we've accomplished here.

Jilly Cooper

Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute

Steve Forbert

He's the most well-known thing about the town, and I wanted to do a tribute to him,

Thomas Aquinas

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.